The word “believe” is a verb meaning to accept something as true, to trust in someone or something, or to hold a conviction. Writers use it in personal, persuasive, and narrative contexts. The examples below show how “believe” appears in real writing.
Real Sentences
In submitting Captain Carter’s strange manuscript to you in book form, I believe that a few words relative to this remarkable personality will be of interest.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
26 words, 158 characters
And now was one to believe that there was nowhere a god of hogs, to whom this hog-personality was precious, to whom these hog-squeals and agonies had a meaning?
Source: The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
29 words, 160 characters
I do not know why I should fear death, I who have died twice and am still alive; but yet I have the same horror of it as you who have never died, and it is because of this terror of death, I believe, that I am so convinced of my mortality.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
52 words, 239 characters
I know that the average human mind will not believe what it cannot grasp, and so I do not purpose being pilloried by the public, the pulpit, and the press, and held up as a colossal liar when I am but telling the simple truths which some day science will substantiate.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
51 words, 268 characters
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